Yep..."it's cool" if no damage is done. But it sure don't make much of a story if the house is set on fire, or someone gets a wild bottle rocket in the eye.

I have shot off a few in my time.....we used to get some brought from Oklahoma where they were legal to Kansas, where they weren't.

Blew cans sky-high...etc. I was very careful and never came close to getting hurt...but stories in the local paper every year about the idiots who have NO sense have convinced me never to try again, and to hope that 'professional' displays are all that I am ever near.